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Effectiveness trumps efficiency

When you observe and interact directly with your customer, you get much richer information than with a simple survey. It’s true that this requires more effort on your part, but it is ultimately a much more effective way of gathering data and will help you [...]

What are the major trends in Medical Devices and Healthcare for 2015?

[slideshare id=42321319&doc=healthcareandmedicaldevicetrendsfor2015-bytriode-141203135824-conversion-gate01]   Patrick Sirois www.triode.ca At Triode, we specialize in developing new products and services for complex industries like medical [...]

How to succeed in the fuzzy front end

Everything you do before starting an innovation project is called the “front end.” Some call this the fuzzy front end…because they’re unsure of what should happen. Most managers have a tendency to manage the fuzzy front end like all other phases, [...]

Increased Regulation in Healthcare

Industry stakeholders and consumer advocacy groups have influenced the US government to shift the focus of US healthcare to quality rather than quantity. In order to protect patients and promote public health, legislation has been put in place which ensures [...]

Your innovation process is backward

Does your new product development process begin with “Generate Idea” on the left, perhaps with a light-bulb icon? Whose idea is it - yours…or your customers? Maybe focusing on your own ideas is wrong! Do you start with your own solutions to assumed [...]

Want to pick up your innovation pace? Follow these simple rules

source: www.careerbuilder.com If you follow this blog, you know that we like to get things done....despite the usual consultant approach! We like to deliver results, not reports! We bet you like to get things done as well, so we offer these four tips for [...]

Adapt the innovation process to the challenge

I have always thought that innovation management should be simple. Most of the CEOs I talk to agree with this approach, yet, when we start to dig into their innovation process.....it's a mess. The process is often complicated and owned only by one department [...]

Innovation: How to become fast and furious

These days most companies are actually technology companies. Think connected watches, driver less cars and automated assembly lines. And in technology, speed is the name of the game; the quicker a company can innovate and produce a product the better it fares [...]

Innovation Engine

How do you develop the right product for the future today? This is not an easy task, so many companies simply throw as many features as possible on to the product and hope for the best. This method is of course ineffective and not economically sound. Luckily [...]

User Research: Tips for better design inputs

I am always fascinated by how little companies know about their customers. Lack of knowledge about customers’ wants and needs is especially prevalent in B2B and B2B2C businesses. source: www.featurepics.com In a Business to Business model, knowing what [...]